The drastic step that no European politician wanted to take again is back on the agenda: lockdown. “This second wave is probably going to be worse than the first. In France, the number of patients hospitalised kept climbing for almost a month after a national lockdown was implemented on March 17. In Poland, as in other European nations, officials managed to contain the spring wave thanks to a full lockdown, prompting the government to begin easing restrictions. “That was the time when temporary hospitals should have been built, so we entered the second wave unprepared.”

Source: News 24 October 27, 2020 06:34 UTC